The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-30
BRIEF JoTTlNFs.


The police made twelve seizures last week
Portland Directory will be issued mex
week.
The new kennebec steamer is expected to-
day.
There were Sc arrests last week of which
% were for drunkenness.
The Quaker Brook Trout Company has re.
elected its old board of officers
Builders are sending to Massachusetts for
brick owing to the scarcity at the yards here.
The wheelmen left Saturday night, 81 in
number, for their run from Newburyport to
Boston.
The Portland Drum Corps will accompany
Burnside Post, Of Auburn, to Providence.
July 4th.
The Boys Literary,Society:of the Y. M. C.
A. will go to Little Diamond at s a. m. to-day
for field day.
Pine Street Church has accepted Mr..
Stackpole's plan of free seats and voluntary
contributions.
Mrs. John Chandler, No II Congress
Place, has cactus SO inches high and blow
ing &c blossoms.
John l.. Sulliyan's Athletic Combination
will visit Portland the early part of June,
and show at the Bijou Rink.
Two new passenger cars will run on the
Congress street route to-day. They were
made at the company's shops.
Friday night the schooner e. p. Boynton,
Of Gloucester, brought $1,000 pounds of hall
bnt to this port, caught in eight days.
Lombard, at his Congress street fish mar
ket made display of nineteen kinds of
hsh Saturday night, nine of them being fresh
water fish.
Inc steamer Greenwood was inspected by
the government inspector Saturday. She
will go on her route June Sd, making nine
trips daily.
Mr.. Fred A. Shaw has made a fine terra
Gotta fire place for the West End Hotel, Bar
Harbor, and is making another at the Deer
ing pottery.
The field day of the Cadets will take place
at the Ocean House, June 18th. There will
be sports of various kinds, and the shoot for
the company badge.
Mr., G. r, Milliken. of Portland, recently
purchased nice pair of horses of B. G.
Waite, Esq, of Canton Point. The price
paidfis reported to be 5000.
Col. Harrington will have temperance
campmeeting at Lake Anassigunticook, to
last two days. the last Of July, and a musical
festival at the same place, July 4th,
Geo. Winston, of Yarmouth. was induced
to lend stranger in Boston on Friday, $50,
taking as security a worthless check for $780,
on the German Exchange Bank, of New
York.
Last weeks exports were valued at S32,-
812, and included 1,386,352 feet of lumber.
and 545 barrels Of clam bait Among the i'm
ports were 900 live Holsters, 1923 tons of salt
and 100 tons of coal.
Inc Sunday Globes Bangor letter saws U.
5. Deputy Marshals Andrews and johnson
are making 1t hot for the liquor sellers in
Penobscot and Aroostook counties who have
not paid the government tax.
f. Z. Boothby, c. d. Brown, M. E. Boil
ster, G. p Manning and E. S. Osgood have
been appointed the new executive committee
OF the Oxford Bear Association, and an ex-
cursion OF the society to Norway will prob
ably take place next month.
The Maine Travellers Association. at their
meeting Saturday evening, decided to 90
to Burlington, VT, over the p. e. O Rail
road, for three days excursion. starting
June 3Oth. If fifty passengers are assured .
special train will be provided.
Harbor Master Willard shas placed tbree
buoys on the south side of the channel-tbe
Cape Elizabeth side-for vessels to anchor
and be out of the channel; two are placed so
that vessels may keep out of the ferry steam
er's track.
Another Of the passengers Of the steamer
Prussian died in this Saturday. He was
convalescent and on Thursday his physician
told his friends to give the patieut only liquid
food. The patient, however, was anx-
lous for beefsteak, and ate it, and on Fri
day night the doctor found him in high fe-
yer. The result was death on Saturday as
stated.